Speak Quotes

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

Listen to the voice that speaks inside

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Listen, someone's screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently

Genius speaks only to genius.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.

I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

The third always speaks the unspeakable words.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.

I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.